Planned cesarean delivery (CD) on maternal request (CDMR) is not associated with an increased risk for neonatal or infant infections compared with planned vaginal delivery (VD), data suggested. In a ...

The most common technique used for closing the uterus after a cesarean delivery causes so many long-term complications that ...

Childbirth is no walk in the park—no matter how your baby is delivered. There is a stigma around Cesarean deliveries, or c-sections, that incorrectly assumes they are “the easy way out,” but that is ...

Regional anesthesia-typically with a spinal or epidural block-has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to ...

Back in 1967 “The Phil Donahue Show” created controversy in daytime television by airing video of a live human birth. On Monday (2/7) “The Doctors” is claiming a new daytime television first by airing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Interpregnancy intervals shorter than 21 months were linked to greater odds of uterine rupture with labor after ...

Women with myasthenia gravis have higher rates of preterm birth and cesarean delivery, new findings show, underscoring the need for careful pregnancy management and monitoring.

About one in 11 women with cesarean deliveries at 34 weeks’ gestation or longer developed PTSD symptoms 2 months later, according to study results published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and ...

The moment you find out you’re pregnant, the questions start flooding in. One of the biggest decisions you’ll face is how you want to deliver your baby. With C-section rates climbing and natural birth ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Central Texas woman is sharing her story after her heart stopped during a cesarean delivery at a north Austin hospital back in December 2022. Kimberly Afflerbach, 33, said she went ...